I was skeptical at first and wondered if this was really good on wood floors (or just some creative marketing!) But this really is a great vacuum for our apartment with all wood floors. The head kind of suctions to the floor and sucks up find debris. Even when the floors look "clean" this will pick up fine dust that we didn't see. We have a large dog and this is great for the hair too. I really like that it doesn't blow the dirt around like many vacuums do. Retractable cord is really a plus. The only con is that the canister is kind of small, so you may have to empty it more than once if you have a really large mess, but it hasn't been too big of a problem.